I rarely say this but the JUTC (Jamaica Urban Transit
Company) is starting to do a few things right.
For one, they’ve made it so that only students in uniform
with their SmarterCards will benefit from concessionary fares as reported in
the article “JUTC
Says Only Students Using Smarter Cards Can Benefit From Concessionary Fares”,
published Monday September 7, 2015, The
Jamaica Gleaner.
The JUTC has also increased their Fleet count up to 452
buses, extended the 2015 Summer Promotion till Saturday October 31st
2015 and also set in motion plans to install Wi-Fi in the JUTC buses as
reported in my blog
article entitled “Wi-Fi
on JUTC Buses in September 2015 - How extended 2015 Summer Promotion will
increase revenue by JA$4 million daily”.
These measures will hopefully boost their revenues by JA$4
million daily and also encourage more school children in the KMTR (Kingston and
Metropolitan Region). Makes sense as no SmarterCard then pay the adult fare.
Adding a Food court with Wi-Fi to the White Elephant that is
the HWT (Half Way Tree) Transport Center would also give the children something
else to do other than fondle each other and have sex in the dark alleys as
pointed out in my blog article
entitled “PAMS
to debut GOJ branded Food Court in Half-Way-Tree Transport Center - Making
revenue from Unruly smartphone toting High School students via Cooked Food and
JA$100 a week Wi-Fi Internet”
Plus with Google Transit on Google Maps, which is available
on most Google Android smartphones, updated with JUTC routes and times as noted
in my blog
article entitled “JUTC
Google Transit from UWI Computer Science Department - Why Google Maps is the
next step towards an AVL”, they’ll have no reason to not be on a bus going
home.
Ok, but what about the old buses that catch on fire?
Like the No. 33 that caught fire in Coorville Gardens,
Duhaney Park on Wednesday June 24th 2015 as reported in “No
injuries after JUTC bus catches fire in Duhaney Park ”, published
Wednesday, June 24, 2015, The Jamaica
Observer or and “Another
JUTC Bus Destroyed By Fire”, published Wednesday June 24, 2015, The Jamaica Gleaner.
Does the JUTC have plans to tackle the problem of old buses
in their fleet that are unserviceable and possibly catching on fire?
60 JUTC buses for
Scrap metal dealers - Why LPG is needed to reduce Bus Fires
Turns out the JUTC plans to sell sixty (60) of their older
model Buses to scrap metal dealers as reported in the article “JUTC
Selling Old Buses, Invites Scrap Metal Bidders”, Published Friday September
11, 2015, The Jamaica Gleaner.
Sealed bids have to be submitted by Wednesday, September 30th
2015 and the scrap metal dealers must be registered as well as possess a tax
compliance certificate and a TRN. But rather
than be a puss-in-a-bag affair, the potential bidders will have a chance to see
what they're bidding for on Tuesday, September 15th 2015 at 10:00am.
On that date they'll be given a chance to view the sixty
(60) JUTC buses on the scrap heap at the Rockfort Depot as reported in the
article “JUTC
invites scrap metal dealers to bid for derelict buses”, published Sunday,
September 13, 2015, The Jamaica
Observer.
Better maintenance is key and a change of fuel to LPG
(Liquid Petroleum Gas) as argued in my blog article
entitled “JUTC
faced PAAC on Wednesday September 17th 2014 – JUTC Buses can’t run on ULSD as
LPG Better for the JUTC Buses Fuel Injectors” would help them reduce their
maintenance costs as well as the frequent bus fires.
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